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I was wondering if it was known why there is such a vacuum of material on the Eastern Orthodox Church in Logos? While the Church Fathers through Gregory the Great are available, and a major source for Eastern Orthodoxy, and two books by Daniel Clendenin are available, there is nearly nothing else that I have been able to find.

The Orthodox Study Bible, the Philokalia, books by Fathers after the end of the series like St. Maximus the Confessor, Simeon the New Theologian or Gregory Palamas, to name a few. Also, there are contemporary authors like Bishop Kallistos Ware, Vladmir Lossky, Alexander Schmeman, etc.

I know that there are often publisher concerns when Logos is unable to get certain books. But certainly some of the Easter Fathers after the 6th century are available in some form? It may be that there has not been a demand. If so, let me say that I would really like to see Logos' library be supplemented this way. As someone who has a deep respect and enjoyment for reading from the Eastern Christian authors, I can say with confidence I would buy a collection offering titles by Orthodox authors (provided I didn't already own the hardbacks).

I would welcome these resources even though I am Anglican, I own the OSB in Olivetree and find it very odd that Logos has yet to offer it seeing how much they offer by them. If the final volume of the Philokalia is ever released perhaps they will get enough interest to release the set in electronic format.

Logos has underdevelopment of its first project with St. Vladimir's Seminary Press (Bzyantine Orthodox) - from the Popular Patristics series. They have available some materials from Gorgias Press (Church of the East/Syriac Orthodox). As the market expands I would expect Logos to expand the offerings.

Orthodox Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."

The multi-volume work by Metropolitan Hilarion looks like a great addition to Logos resources. It combines history and the theology of Orthodoxy. I would be really interested in getting it if it as good as the website shows.

I was wondering if it was known why there is such a vacuum of material on the Eastern Orthodox Church in Logos? While the Church Fathers through Gregory the Great are available, and a major source for Eastern Orthodoxy, and two books by Daniel Clendenin are available, there is nearly nothing else that I have been able to find. . .

Logos welcomes users making suggestions about resources or publishers. I'm sure you could recommend these authors and even entire Orthodox publishing houses to Logos. Do so in the Suggestions forum.

Logos has been expanding it's resource base and recently made a large jump in the area of Roman Catholic theology/interests. It's even increasing it's market share among Roman Catholics. If the market is there for Orthodox resources, I'm sure Logos would want to explore its options and open negotiations with publishers.

In addition to making suggestions to Logos, make suggestions to the authors and publishers/copyright holders to partner with Logos in distributing their material. Keep at it. These negotiations can take time, but both Logos and publishers generally respond well to customer input.

Things really took off in the Catholic resources when Logos hired a full time Product person (Andrew Jones; he had a predecessor who was good but sadly I forgot his name). It may need Logos to hire a Orthodox product director for things to take off there as well, as I am sure the marketing folks are stretched way thin and whoever has Orthodox in their responsibilities probably has a dozen other things on that list too.

I was wondering if it was known why there is such a vacuum of material on the Eastern Orthodox Church in Logos?

Too few Orthodox users. Until very recently there was a similar vacuum for Catholic resources, but MJ (and a few others) have been relentless in pushing for more, and when Andrew was hired as Catholic Products Manager 1.5 years ago things really started to take off, with a bit of an explosion in both Catholic resources and Catholic users.

MJ is also the one who's put Logos and St Vladimir's in touch. I imagine that once Popular Patristics Series, Part 1 (10 vols.) ships -- and provided both parties are still happy with each other -- we'll soon see the rest of that series on prepub, and then other St Vladimir titles, perhaps starting with Schmemann as he has been asked for by several Protestant users as well.

One good thing is that the vastly expanded Catholic userbase will help push Orthodox resources into production much faster, and the more they sell, the more Logos will put up for sale. And once they get there's money to be made, they'll probably start looking for an Orthodox Product Manager as well.

Clayton Tinervin:

While the Church Fathers through Gregory the Great are available, and a major source for Eastern Orthodoxy, and two books by Daniel Clendenin are available, there is nearly nothing else that I have been able to find.

You should make sure to keep an eye on Community Pricing, where older, Public Domain, works can be bought for often very good prices.

You should also take a look at the Suggestions forum. You can either search for older threads there and add your to books you want to see in Logos, or you can start a new thread listing them, and we'll add our 's. That forum is read by Logos staff that handles these things. Suggestions here in General are likely to get lost. You can also e-mail to suggest@logos.com.

"The Christian way of life isn't so much an assignment to be performed, as a gift to be received." Wilfrid Stinissen

I am relocating to the Bellingham area soon, and will be very focused on dramatically expanding the selection of Orthodox books and resources for the Logos ecosystem. Please stay tuned, and follow both Logos and my personal blog (www.onbehalfofall.org) for updates! Please feel free to contact me with any specific requests or ideas you might have. My ears are open.

You passed I've found it amusing that the three great threads of the Church are usually referred to as Western, Byzantine and Eastern. But the Byzantine thread becomes Eastern Orthodox forcing the Eastern tradition to be called Oriental. Whereupon, the best known Oriental Orthodox Church - the Copts - have somehow migrated from Africa to the Orient?

Orthodox Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."

Welcome Gabe. MJ has taught me a lot about the various branches of Christianity outside of the western world. She has a long way to go, as I did not pay too much attention in church history class, and have not really dug into my church history books in Logos.

Perhaps a blog (for the lazy) on the differences on the three branches mentioned above and why they matter.